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No. 392,201. Patented Nov. 6, 1888.

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U ITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

GATHARINE A. GRISXVOLD, OF NE\V YORK, N. Y.

CORSET.

EE ECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 392,201, dated November 6, 1888.

Application filed January 25. 1888. Serial No. 261,850. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OATHARINE A. GRIS- WOLD, of the city, county, and State of New York, a citizen of the-United States, have invented an Improved Corset, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to corsets; and it consists in a corset provided with stays, each of which has an edgewise turn or reversal of direction,seated or incorporated in correspond ingly-shaped pockets or folds constituted by and in the material of the corset-body, and extendingindividually andsingly(oneor more) from the bottom edge of the corset-body, substantiall y to and with their apices at the waistline of the corset, and with both the extremitics of each of said steels terminating sub stantially at said bottom edge of the corset, together with rectilinear stays seated in rectilinear pockets in the corset-body, and extending thus through the corset-body from the upper edge thereof to and with their lower extremities opposed to the apices of the bent stays, substantially the waist-line, as and for the purpose hereinafter specified.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a corset containing my invention. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the same; and Fig. 3is a similar View, enlarged, of a detached portion of the lower part of the corset-body, and showing a modification of my invention.

In the drawings, A is the corset-body, preferably composed, as is usual, of two thicknesses of suitable cloth united at the edges.

At B in the drawings are shown steels, bones, stays, or equivalent stiffeners, each having an edgewise turn or reversal of direction, consisting, preferably, in an edgewisc cunvated bend about midway of its length, and said steels (one or more) are seated, individually and singly, in correspondinglyshaped pockets or folds constituted in and by the material of the corset-body, and preferably by means of rows of stitching pass ing through the thicknesses of cloth constituting the corset-body, as shown in broken lines at 0. These said steels or stiffencrs thus incorporated in the corset-body extend, individually and singly (one or more) from the lower edge of the corset through the body to the waistline, and return thence to said lower edge, so that their apices are located substantially at said waist-line, and both the extremities of each stiffener terminate or are located at or near said lower edge, and preferablyimmediately upon said edge, where they may be inclosed by the binding a on said edge.

At D are shown rectilinear bones, steels, or stifleners, which extend, incorporated in the corset-body, in rectilinear pockets constituted by rows of stitching through the material of the corset, as shown at d, from the top edge of the corset to substantially the waist-line, and there terminating, with their lower extremities located opposedly to the apex of a bent stiffener, B, as shown plainly in Fig.2. By means of this described construction, and as a feature of my invention, thelower ends of the rectilinear bones or stays D abut directly against the apices of the bent stays B, and thus, while the use of the bent stays B obviates the necessity of the employment of bones or stays extending continuously across the waist-line from top to bottom of the corset 'such use of said bent stays enables the rectilinear bones or stays l) to be furnished with a support or abutment at their lower ends at the waist-line, against which said ends may bear, thus tending to prevent said ends from wearing through the material of the corsetbody at this point. v

By means of the described construction the bent and the rectilinear stays abutting each other are adapted to be jointed together, as shown in Fig. 3. This jointing may be accomplished by means of two thicknesses of cloth or othersuitable material, thelower part of which is stitched across to form an inclos ing-seat for the apex of the bent, stay B, and the upper part of which is provided with ver tical rows of stitching to form a socket or sockets for the lower ends of the rectilinear stays O, as shown plainly in broken lines at c, Fig. 3.

I do not claim, broadly, herein an edgewisebent stay or stiffener extending from one of the edges of a corset to the waist-line thereof, and with the apex thereof at said waist-line; but I intend to define my invention to be and to limit my claim hereunder to a corset hav- A corset provided with stays, each having an edgewise turn or reversal of direction, seated in correspondingly-shaped pockets constituted in and by the material of the corsetbody, and extending, one or more, from the bottom edge thereof to and with their apiees located at the waist-line, and with both extremities of each said stay terminating at said bottom edge, together with rectilinear stays seated in rectilinear pockets within the corset-body and extending from the top edge thereof to the waist-line, and with theirlower ends there, within the oorset-body, located opposedly to the apiees of said edgewise-bent stays, whereby said lower ends of said rectilinear stays abut against said apices, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

OATHARINE A. GRISWOLD. Vitnesses:

JOHN J. ENNIS, J AMES MCINTYRE. 

